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...wit of John Barrymore's performance makes Topaze one of the most ingratiating comedies of the past year, as it is certainly the most cynical. Good shot: the Barrymore eyebrow's working above a handkerchief which conceals his mouth when Topaze has just downed his first cocktail, including the olive, in one gulp...
...interpretative history of the last three years in the U. S., so that those who are still on the run may read. Calling his book a "fever chart," he plots the curves of recent U. S. public opinion, shows how it followed the swoops of economic graphs. Written with wit and wisdom. The Years of the Locust is a serious book not aimed at mental moppets, well worth a tycoon's time...
...Author Robert Nathan's urbanity there are as yet few signs of foppishness. Like a U. S. Anatole France (without the mordant bite of France's wit) he is both urbane and neat...
Painful were these revelations to Tokyo's Mayor, popular Hidejiro Nagata, who with flying coattails has opened many a baseball game at Tokyo's Stadium in the Meiji Grounds, and who is a national figure, renowned for sturdy patriotism, sage wit. Though no slightest suspicion pointed at either Mr. Nagata or at any of his kin, he promptly scapegoated, announced his resignation as Mayor of Tokyo with this terse explanation, "I desire to embrace full responsibility...
...have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing of the cud take the place amongst them of the two ways men have of really understanding the world--science, which explores it, and sound wit, which estimates humanly the value of science and of everything else." The educated man, whether he has been to college or not, comes ultimately to rely upon mother wit and his horse-sense. New York Times...